SALMON-NETTING LICENSES.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20169, 23 February 1931, Page 17

SALMON-NETTING LICENSES.

■ r , ■ v "":,y ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY'S SURPRISE, : j \■ - , '■/ ,• -• *.*'•: V.|.- • v " \ • ; h - * A V-.' Surprise that the Government should., have announced its idecision* to issue licenses for netting aftlman at this lato stage was dxpTessed'by'Mr 0. H. Law* Tonce, president of"'the North Canterbury .Acclimatisation Society,, yesterday, when commenting on the decision of the Minister Marine (the- Hon. J, B. Donald), conveyed to Mr D. G. Sullivan, M.P., to. issue four salmonnetting m Canterbury • this season. , , t ''The, season , has just commenced,'' said Mr' Lawrence, "and as a rule'wo have understood that if licenses were to be:issued thq society would bo noti-. fled earlier. There will be some degree of disappointment among anglers, and possibly resentment from some of thejn, for they have tftkeu , out -their licenses in the belief that they would have a free'sway in the matter of sal»mon > fishing, with no interference by netting at all. ' "Netting the fish will have a tremendous effect both on the. number of fish getting up.the river,to spawn, and on the number available for anglers. The fish are not. yet plentiful enough to be netted, and there is no prospect, 6f them being bo for some years, if at all. The regulation'of "salmon netting is quite outside khe jurisdiction of the Acclimatisation Society, being under the control of L the Marine Department, and for them to* refer-to us at all is. purely P\ matter of; courtesy."